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17 Sep

How to Manage Change in Your Company

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As seen in the August 2006 edition of HVACR Business magazine.

Change. We hear about it all the time. What exactly is it? We can define change as moving from a present state of affairs to a future state of affairs.

Normally, when a leader in an organization decides upon a change, they have a vision; they think the change will be good, and that things will be better as a result. So they ask for — and expect — all co-workers who will be affected to cooperate and implement the changes.

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17 Sep

How to Hire Co-Workers: Part 3 of 3

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As seen in the June, 2008 edition of HVACR Business magazine.

It is very important that you don’t create unrealistic expectations.

In the first two parts of How To Hire Co-Workers, I wrote that when considering a hiring decision, a series of three meetings is recommended: the get-acquainted meeting, the interview meeting and the mutual-hiringdecision meeting. Assuming there is still an interest with both parties after the interview meeting, we’re now ready for the mutual-hiring-decision meeting.

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17 Sep

How to Hire Co-Workers: Part 2 of 3

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As seen in the April 2008 edition of HVACR Business magazine.

13 Methods — Some You Probably Aren’t Using

This is the second of a three-part series.

Recruiting is the practice of getting people interested in working at your company. Recruiting people is totally different than hiring them; however, you can’t hire them if you don’t recruit them. Recruiting is the first step in properly staffing a company.

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17 Sep

How to Hire Co-Workers: Part 1 of 3

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As seen in the February 2008 edition of HVACR Business magazine.

Contrary to the opinion of most people in our industry, I maintain that you can staff your company with competent co-workers — and I have plenty of experience doing it both for my own contracting companies and my consulting clients.

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17 Sep

Effective Management Meetings

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As seen in the May 2006 edition of HVACR Business magazine.

Productive management meetings are a basic fundamental step toward the development of a management team that works together and produces results. Personally, I would not manage a company without these important sessions.

Management meetings are crucial, regardless of the size of the company. You’d be shocked, though, at the number of companies that do not conduct these very meaningful sessions. These same companies, however:

• Waste precious time and energy with daily “hallway meetings”

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